Healthy Chocolate Chip Donuts (Baked, No Yeast)

These healthy chocolate chip donuts are made with almond flour and baked in the oven. They are moist and cakey with miniature chocolate chips dispersed throughout. This healthy donut recipe is gluten free, dairy free, yeast free and paleo friendly.

We love baked donuts over here! From pumpkin protein donuts to applesauce donuts, easy baked banana donuts to butternut squash donuts - we love rotating through all sorts of flavor options as a weekend breakfast treat.

These healthy chocolate chip donuts are a new favorite. My kids claim them to be the "best donuts ever".

They are baked in the oven, have a moist, cakey texture and are filled with miniature chocolate chips. You can top them with a dark chocolate glaze, or go without. (We like them both ways.)

Why You'll Love these Chocolate Chip Donuts

• gluten free and grain free - made with a combination of almond flour and tapioca starch
• dairy free - no butter or milk
• paleo friendly - made with healthy, minimally processed ingredients
• refined sugar free - sweetened with maple syrup
• yeast free - no yeast in this donut recipe
• just 8 ingredients

Ingredients

Here's what you need to make these yeast free chocolate chip donuts:

• blanched almond flour
• tapioca starch
• baking soda
• salt
• eggs
• maple syrup
• vanilla extract
• miniature dark chocolate chips

If you want to make the chocolate glaze, you'll need a few additional ingredients. This includes: dark chocolate, almond butter and coconut oil.

How to Make Baked Chocolate Chip Donuts

To make these donuts, you'll need a large mixing bowl, whisk, spatula, greased donut pan and the required ingredients. Here's what you need to do:

First, preheat your oven to 350 degrees F. Grease 8 slots of a donut pan/s and set aside. I have silicone donut molds and greased them with palm shortening. Since silicone pans are flimsy, I set them on a baking sheet.

Next, combine the dry ingredients in your large mixing bowl. This includes the almond flour, tapioca starch, baking soda and salt.

Whisk in the wet ingredients: eggs, maple syrup and vanilla.

Lastly, fold the chocolate chips into the batter.

Pour the batter into your greased donut pan, filling each slot about ½ way. You should get 8 donuts.

Place the donuts in the oven and bake at 350 degrees for 15 minutes.

After baking, let the donuts sit in the pan for 5-10 minutes, then transfer them to a wire cooling rack.

You can enjoy the donuts as-is, or top them with a chocolate glaze. Before adding the glaze, make sure the donuts are fully cooled. You can pop them in the fridge to cool them faster.

For the glaze, melt the dark chocolate and coconut oil. Then mix in the almond butter. Dip each of the donuts into the glaze, covering the top half of the donuts.

Place the donuts back on the wire rack and let the chocolate set. Again, placing them in the fridge will speed up this process.

Storage

Place any leftover donuts in an airtight container and store in the fridge up to one week.

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